Rex Reason
Biography
Rex Reason was an American actor who spent three years performing at the Pasadena Playhouse from 1948 before Hollywood took notice. Born in Berlin to an American family, he grew up in Los Angeles, and in 1951 a screen test at Columbia Pictures led to the lead in his first film, Storm Over Tibet (1952). He joined Universal-International in 1953 after appearing in Salome (1953), and was best known for his part as the scientist Cal Meacham in This Island Earth (1955). He also played a sympathetic scientist in The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) and was in Band of Angels (1957) with Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier. On television he starred as newspapermen in Man Without a Gun and The Roaring Twenties, and he guest-starred on Perry Mason and, in his last small-screen part, Wagon Train. He died in 2015.
86years old at death
- Born Berlin
- Died Walnut
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 43 years1953 to 1996
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A role that slipped away
In the fall of 1961, Rex Reason left his Warner Bros. film contract while he was in the running for a starring part in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate. Laurence Harvey got the role instead.
Early training
Reason's stage career started in 1948 at the Pasadena Playhouse, where he acted for three years until Hollywood took notice of him.
First role
After a 1951 screen test at Columbia Pictures, Reason was cast as the lead in his first picture, the low-budget adventure drama Storm Over Tibet (1952), which had been produced for MGM but was acquired by Columbia.
About the name
Reason appeared in two films at Universal Studios credited as "Bart Roberts", then insisted on performing under his real name.
Rex Reason movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Two actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Gregg Palmer's page
Russell Johnson's page
Also two films together4 more actors
- Robert NicholsMystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) and This Island Earth (1955)
- Faith DomergueMystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) and This Island Earth (1955)
- Regis PartonMystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) and This Island Earth (1955)
- Karl Ludwig LindtMystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) and This Island Earth (1955)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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